ia-document-review

ia-document-review is a skill for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 59 tokens per session (2,022 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of document-review, MIT.

A structured review process for plans, specifications, architecture decision records, and other documents. It looks for unclear parts, missing information, hidden assumptions, scope growth, feasibility issues, and security concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review brainstorms, plans, specifications, and design documents, including documents with product, design, or technical concerns.
Why use it?
It helps teams find problems in a document before implementation begins. It also makes decisions and requirements clearer for the people who must act on them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the whetstone plugin — 29 skills, 19 commands, 18 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to review brainstorms, plans, specifications, and design documents, including documents with product, design, or technical concerns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iliaal/whetstone/ia-document-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add iliaal/whetstone --skill ia-document-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iliaal/whetstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install whetstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 19 commands, 18 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,022 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.02022
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00809
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00202

Measured 24d ago against content hash c0cb6dd38257, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ia-document-review scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 24d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to document-review — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-document-review/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Document Review

Improve brainstorm or plan documents through structured review.

Working rules

  • Assess before editing, preserve implementation-relevant constraints and rationale, and distinguish minor edits from substantive decisions.
  • A review-only request authorizes findings, not file edits. Apply changes only when the user has requested editing or approved the proposed changes; do not ask again for changes already authorized.

Step 1: Get the Document

If a document path is provided: Read it, then proceed to Step 2.

If no document is specified: Ask which document to review (via AskUserQuestion in Claude Code, request_user_input in Codex, or numbered options in chat as the fallback), or look for the most recent brainstorm/plan in docs/brainstorms/ or docs/plans/.

Step 2: Assess

Read through the document and ask:

  • What is unclear?
  • What is unnecessary?
  • What decision is being avoided?
  • What assumptions are unstated?
  • Where could scope accidentally expand?
  • Is this technically feasible with the current architecture?
  • Is what it says about the current system true? Follow each checkable claim (file paths, function, command, or config names, endpoints, cited PRs or issues, numbers, behavior implied by verbs like "retries") to its source, reading only. On a long document, sample and state the coverage.
  • Are there security implications in what's proposed?

These questions surface issues. Note findings without fixing yet.

Step 3: Activate Review Lenses

Based on the document's content, activate specialized review perspectives. Scan for signals and apply matching lenses:

Lens Signals What it checks
Product User-facing features, customer language, market claims, scope decisions Problem framing, value proposition clarity, whether scope matches stated goals
Design UI/UX references, user flows, wireframes, interaction descriptions Flow completeness, interaction gaps, accessibility considerations
Security Auth/authorization, API endpoints, PII, payments, tokens, encryption Auth model gaps, data exposure risks, missing threat considerations
Scope guardian Multiple priority tiers (P0/P1/P2), large requirement count (>8), stretch goals Scope creep, premature abstractions, features disguised as requirements
Adversarial >5 distinct requirements, explicit architectural decisions, high-stakes domains Unstated assumptions, optimistic estimates, single points of failure, missing failure modes

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 24d ago Changed c0cb6dd38257
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · +8 tokens per session 4366425b955e
  3. 1mo ago Changed 4e9a03412fbe
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  5. 1mo ago Changed · -3 lines a5ed6ffc2abb
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 4bd757ae5b35

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ia-document-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,022 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to document-review, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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